Decima International is a professional services company, providing project management and controls services to clients in the United States and the Middle East. Our mission is to become the premier professional services provider across all industry sectors we are engaged in. To accomplish this, Decima International’s founders established a simple yet powerful formula:
Approach each client engagement as a partnership, create an environment that attracts the most talented professionals and allows them to flourish, and regulate growth to maintain excellence in our service standards.
If you are interested in a long and rewarding career working with high-profile clients on some of the most challenging projects in the world, then Decima is where you belong. At Decima, you will be able to explore incredible growth and professional development opportunities.
We are seeking an accomplished and highly motivated Risk Manager to lead risk management activities for a large-scale data center project in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. This client-facing role requires strong analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills, with a focus on identifying, assessing, monitoring, and mitigating project risks throughout the full project lifecycle.
The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of construction risk management, project controls, schedule and cost risk analysis, and risk reporting within complex construction, infrastructure, or mission-critical projects.
You will play a key role in supporting project leadership, technical teams, and client stakeholders by maintaining a proactive risk management framework, ensuring risks are properly captured, analyzed, escalated, and managed in alignment with project objectives.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Lead the implementation and management of the project risk management process, ensuring alignment with client requirements, internal standards, and industry best practices.
- Develop, maintain, and update the project risk register, ensuring all risks, opportunities, mitigation actions, owners, due dates, and statuses are accurately updated.
- Facilitate risk identification workshops and regular risk review meetings with project managers, discipline leads, contractors, consultants, and client representatives.
- Assess project risks related to scope, cost, schedule, procurement, design, construction, commissioning, quality, safety, and stakeholder interfaces.
- Perform qualitative and quantitative risk assessments to evaluate probability, impact, exposure, and priority of identified risks.
- Ensure integration of local context, requirements, and regulations into the project risk management framework and process.
- Support schedule and cost risk analysis activities, including risk modeling, scenario analysis, and development of mitigation strategies.
- Monitor key project risks and early warning indicators, escalating critical risks to project leadership and recommending corrective or preventive actions.
- Prepare and present regular risk reports, dashboards, trend analysis, and executive summaries for client and senior leadership review.
- Coordinate with planning, cost control, commercial, procurement, design, construction, and commissioning teams to ensure risk impacts are properly reflected in project controls reporting.
- Track mitigation actions and follow up with risk owners to ensure timely closure or reduction of risk exposure.
- Support change management, claims avoidance, delay analysis, and lessons learned activities by providing risk-related input and documentation.
- Review contractor risk submissions, risk registers, mitigation plans, and progress updates to ensure consistency with overall project requirements.
- Promote a proactive risk culture across the project team by improving risk awareness, accountability, and timely communication.
- Contribute to the development of risk management procedures, templates, reports, and governance processes.
QUALIFICATIONS
Required qualifications:
- 15+ years of experience in risk management, project controls, project management, or construction management within large-scale construction, infrastructure, or mission-critical projects.
- Bachelor’s degree in Construction Management, Civil Engineering, Engineering Management, Quantity Surveying, Business, or a related technical field.
- Prior experience working on data centers, mission-critical, industrial, infrastructure, or large-scale building projects.
- Strong knowledge of project risk management principles, including risk identification, assessment, mitigation planning, monitoring, escalation, and reporting.
- Experience developing and maintaining project risk registers, mitigation trackers, risk dashboards, and executive-level risk reports.
- Strong understanding of the relationship between risk, cost, schedule, procurement, commercial management, and project delivery.
- Ability to facilitate risk workshops and engage effectively with multidisciplinary project teams, contractors, consultants, and client representatives.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret complex project information and provide practical risk-based recommendations.
- Proficiency in risk management tools, including Monte Carlo simulation and integrated cost-schedule risk methodologies, using Primavera Risk Analysis, Safran Risk, @RISK, Acumen Risk, or similar.
- Experience supporting qualitative and quantitative risk analysis, including probability and impact assessments, risk scoring, and trend analysis.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills with the ability to clearly communicate risks, impacts, and mitigation strategies to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced project environment.
- Experience working in a PMC, owner’s representative, or client-side project management environment.
- Professional certifications such as PMI-RMP, PMP, AACE, IRM, or equivalent risk/project management certification.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, particularly Excel, PowerPoint, and Word.
Preferred qualifications:
- Master’s degree in Construction Management, Engineering Management, Project Management, Risk Management, or a related field.
- Experience working on hyperscale data centers or other large-scale, mission-critical facilities.
- Familiarity with Primavera P6, Microsoft Project, Power BI, Oracle Primavera Cloud, Procore, or other project controls platforms.
- Active membership in PMI, AACE, IRM, or similar professional associations.
POSITION DETAILS
- Location (On-site): Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Position: Risk Manager
- Position Classification: Salary-based full-time hours
Decima International is an Equal Opportunity Employer that is committed to the safety and well-being of all. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding), age, medical condition, marital or domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression and transgender status, mental disability or physical disability, genetic information, military or veteran status, citizenship, low-income status or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable law.
Skills Required
- 15+ years experience in risk management, project controls, project management, or construction management on large-scale construction or mission-critical projects
- Bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Civil Engineering, Engineering Management, Quantity Surveying, Business, or related technical field
- Prior experience working on data centers, mission-critical, industrial, infrastructure, or large-scale building projects
- Strong knowledge of project risk management principles including identification, assessment, mitigation planning, monitoring, escalation, and reporting
- Experience developing and maintaining project risk registers, mitigation trackers, dashboards, and executive-level risk reports
- Proficiency in Monte Carlo simulation and integrated cost-schedule risk methodologies using Primavera Risk Analysis, Safran Risk, @RISK, Acumen Risk, or similar
- Ability to facilitate risk workshops and engage with multidisciplinary project teams, contractors, consultants, and client representatives
- Strong analytical skills to interpret complex project information and provide practical risk-based recommendations
- Experience in a PMC, owner's representative, or client-side project management environment
- Professional certification such as PMI-RMP, PMP, AACE, IRM, or equivalent
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, particularly Excel, PowerPoint, and Word
- Master's degree in Construction Management, Engineering Management, Project Management, Risk Management, or related field
- Experience with hyperscale data centers or other large-scale mission-critical facilities
- Familiarity with Primavera P6, Microsoft Project, Power BI, Oracle Primavera Cloud, Procore, or other project controls platforms
- Active membership in PMI, AACE, IRM, or similar professional associations
What We Do
Decima International is a global professional services company specializing in project and construction management, providing integrated project management solutions, program governance, and advisory services worldwide.
